Washington Nationals honor the late Michael Freedman with scoreboard tribute

The Washington Nationals baseball team paid tribute to the late Michael Freedman, former National Press Club president, during a between-innings break at its final home game at Nationals' Park Sunday, Sept. 24, with a display on its giant center field scoreboard.

The display included the words “Farewell Mike Freedman, 1951-1923, devoted husband, father, grandfather and Nats fan.”

Also included in the display was a photo of Freedman posing with one of the team’s “racing president” mascots, Teddy Roosevelt, and another showing Freedman, wearing a Nats’ cap, at the podium of a Club special event with his wife Renee and the team’s 2019 world series championship trophy.

Freedman was so avid a Nats fan that while president of the Club in 2020 he persuaded to the team to lend the championship trophy to NPC temporarily to share with members at the special event.

Freedman died Sept. 19 of pancreatic cancer.